Route brief · SAO → OTP
São Paulo → Bucharest
$943
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Oct 5 – Oct 15 · 10 nights
Air China2 stops
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefOTPBucharestBelle-époque villas next to communist concrete, and the cheapest capital in the European Union.Best windowMay–Jun · Sep–OctAirportsHenri Coandă (OTP)All routes into BucharestWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in Bucharest: May–Jun · Sep–Oct. Fare history for this route is still thin, so we make no seasonal call yet.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 16 hours outbound, on a 10-night trip — ticketed under Air China, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $943 for 10,558 km each way, that works out to about $45 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 12 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Bucharest, this fare ranks 8th — 1.6× the $573 we hold from Seoul. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 43 routes of similar length we watch out of São Paulo, where the middle fare is $1,049. We have 1 month of cached prices for this route so far — not enough to call a fare cheap or expensive, so we publish the price without a percentage.
Route facts
- Airports
- Guarulhos (GRU) · Congonhas (CGH) · Viracopos (VCP) ↔ Henri Coandă (OTP)
- Flight time
- ~16 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~10,558 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Air China
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- May–Jun · Sep–Oct
SAO → OTP, answered.
How far in advance should I book SAO → Bucharest?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet. Answering it honestly means watching the same departure date on this route over many weeks as it approaches, and that archive is still filling up — so any "book N days ahead" figure here would be borrowed from somewhere else rather than measured. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from São Paulo to Bucharest?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Air China. Nonstop options exist on many dates at higher prices — check the live search for your exact dates.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on August 16). Airlines reprice constantly, so the booking search re-checks the live price before you pay. Fresher finds are far more likely to still be available.
Next step
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